Friday 22 August 08 - 03:45
 

Comment & Analysis

  • International emerging markets: Europe

    Western Europe accounts for 27% of the world’s manufacturing industries machine tool consumption; that’s bigger than China and more than twice that of the USA and Japan. As EMO 2007 looms large, the UK’s exports to Europe are growing and the UK’s participation in EMO this year will be more successful than ever before says Dr John L Collins, business development manager, The Manufacturing Technologies Association. 

  • Creating a company common purpose

    Businesses need a ‘totem pole’; something that encourages loyalty and that helps the team to feel part of something bigger. If you can unite your people towards a common purpose or goal, then you are bound to work effectively and have real strength as a business says Arthur Richardson, director, South West MAS. 

  • Business landscape to be shaken by ‘e-Quake’

    Businesses across the UK are facing the biggest supply shake-up since barcodes were introduced 30 years ago.  

  • Degreasing forum advises water is safest solvent of all

    UK companies were encouraged to flush out damaging surface preparation processes at a technical forum on 30 July.  

Stevens Rowsell is a specialist precision sheet metal engineering company in East Sussex